Kris Marshall Quotes

Kris Marshall

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 11, 1973

I'm a qualified yacht skipper, so I do a lot of sailing.

Kris Marshall

In terms of diet, when I'm home, I start the day with a cup of coffee, Weetabix, toast and some fruit. If I'm at the house for lunch, I might choose an omelette with green salad.

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Prince Charles was a lot wittier than I thought he'd be, and passionate about the environment and architecture.

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You have an ideal of masculinity to live up to, and then there's everything else on top. You have to be a perfect husband. You have to be in shape. Apart from alcohol and exercise, there are very few outlets for men.

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If you've got 30 people standing in a very small room with about 10 lights in 40 degree heat and 98% humidity, there's no air and it starts to drive you a bit mad!

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As brilliant as those dark Scandi noir dramas are, not everything has to be shot down a Danish alleyway.

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I'm actually really bad at puzzles.

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I really admire people who have the integrity and dignity to hold out for the best work, even if that means you're not going to work for six months. But I don't have that.

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I'm quite a deadbeat person. I like to mooch around and go on walks and laze.

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I always hoped I'd end up playing a lot cooler roles. I do end up playing quite a lot of idiot savants, and I've actually started to revel in that slightly.

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I like playing characters who are really, really quite uncomfortable with life, uncomfortable in their own skin.

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I spent about eight months of my year on 'Death in Paradise', so it doesn't leave a massive amount of time to do other stuff.

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I like to do everything, if I can. There's a lot of roles which I would have loved to have taken that went to other people.

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I enjoy talking with my male friends, but a lot of them are not actors. If I'm talking to my peers, I wouldn't give out information that would be perceived as a sign of weakness.

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To be home for story time is brilliant. Even if after 14 hours of filming you're exhausted and just want to fall into bed.

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Not everything has to be 'The Bridge' or 'The Wire'. Those shows are brilliant. But you have to invest your cerebellum in them.

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So I've never made a conscious decision to cajole people into thinking I'm not that slacker guy from 'My Family' anymore.

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I used to worry about it quite a bit but now, not at all. I've got a roof over my head. I've got a little boy. Those are the main things.

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Literally every single job I've had for ages has been jetting off to far-flung places.

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So even though 'Sanditon' was filmed in Gloucestershire on the coast, which was gorgeous, it meant I could finish work, get home, and do a few bedtime stories.

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